A 24-hour recording of Radio New Zealand National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
12 April 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 History Repeated (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Spiritual Outlook (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns for Sunday 3:05 Tu, by Patricia Grace (4 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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String of Gold Nuggets, by Pauline Cartwright, told by Brian Sergent; In the Dark, by Frances Cherry, told by Johanna Smith; Maui and the Space Canoe, written and told by Apirana Taylor; Kayto, written and told by Apirana Taylor ; The Party Frock, From School Journal 1932, told by Angela Green; 20,000 Spiders, by David Somerset, told by Peter Vere Jones (RNZ)
===7:08 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries including Insight, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch and music and The Week in Parliament
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07:12
Tunisia crackdown prompts fears for civil liberty
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There are calls for a crackdown in Tunisia after Islamist militants killed 22 people in the Bardo museum last month.
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Tags: Tunisia, terrorism, Islamic militants
Duration: 10'30"
07:21
Fallout continues as Fiji snubs Pacific Island Forum
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The subject of Fiji, which has dominated Pacific Island Forum summits every year since 2006, will continue this year after the country's leader announced he will not attend.
Topics: Pacific, politics
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Tags: Fiji
Duration: 4'44"
07:27
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race: Kiwi Rower
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Heavy favourites Oxford beat Cambridge in the Boat Race for the sixth time in eight years. New Zealand brothers Sam and James O'Connor were in the Oxford team. James spoke to Wallace fresh from the podium.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Oxford, Cambridge, rowing
Duration: 3'41"
07:32
Week In Parliament Sunday for 12 April 2015
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The week in Parliament with Tom Frewen.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 11'31"
07:40
Ocean Acidification Triggers Extinction
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Otago University's Dr Matthew Clarkson says ocean acidification triggered massive species extinction: a wake up call to the perils of a changing climate today.
Topics: science
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Tags: climate, ocean acidification, ocean, extinction
Duration: 7'48"
07:52
IIML launches fundraising bid for school poetry competition
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The International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University is aiming to revive the only national poetry competition for high school students.
Topics: arts, education
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Tags: poetry
Duration: 5'56"
08:12
Insight for 12 April 2015 - Sth Korea and the NZ Trade Deal
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Jane Patterson delves into the trade agreement with South Korea and asks if it's a good deal for NZ?
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The Deer Industry says the Trade Minister has done it no favours by describing deer antler velvet as an aphrodisiac.
Deer velvet is worth about $20 million dollars a year in export earnings and as Insight has been finding out, that will be further boosted by the inclusion of unprocessed velvet in the South Korea free trade agreement.
The Deer Industry says prices in the South Korean market have gone up by a quarter since last year, and that's off the back of six years of steadily increasing returns, but it argues the market demand is for the product as a general tonic in traditional medicine, not to boost a person's flagging libido.
The Prime Minister John Key recently travelled to Seoul to witness the signing of the deal, that will initially save exporters $69 million a year in tariffs, and when fully in effect, $230 million.
In terms of Asian export markets, South Korea is second only to China for New Zealand, with annual trade worth more than $2 billion.
It was a difficult deal to negotiate, in part due to push-back from the South Korean agriculture sector.
New Zealand also had little political and economic heft, because New Zealand market is already relatively small and unregulated, so has less to offer South Korea in terms of reduced tariffs.
During a broad-ranging interview for Insight, the Trade Minister, Tim Groser, was asked about deer velvet.
"It's very interesting this deer velvet thing which as far as I know is an aphrodisiac, let's not beat about the bush...So this was also the most difficult issue to resolve in the Taiwan agreement...so these Asian markets, they're deeply sensitive about this."
The Chief Executive of Deer Industry New Zealand, Dan Coup, strongly rejects any suggestion deer velvet is used as an aphrodisiac.
"It's simply just not what it's used for - the Koreans and Chinese have been using this for product for thousands of years and it's a family product."
Mr Coup said it's traditionally a mix of herbs and other ingredients that would be prescribed by a practitioner in Oriental medicine, the family would take those ingredients home, cook them up and make a sort of a broth or tea which would be consumed over a period of time.
"It's largely around immune function, but also general health and well-being."
While in Seoul the Prime Minister John Key was asked what he knew about the product.
"Um, well, apparently it's good for you, some people claim it has all sorts of benefits but I don't take it."
Standing beside the Prime Minister, Mr Groser was asked whether there was an untapped market in New Zealand for deer velvet products.
"When I get to an old age pension home I'll let you know."
Dan Spiers, a deer farmer from central Hawkes Bay says comments like that are not at all helpful.
"And I'm not sure whether it was just a one-liner, throw away, tongue-in-cheek comment probably by Mr Groser, but it's certainly not thought of or marketed as an aphrodisiac by the New Zealand industry," he said.
Mr Spiers describes the use of deer velvet as "much more refined."
"Oriental medicine is a huge part of the Oriental culture, and Asian culture and has been around a lot longer than western medicine."
In terms of the broader trade deal, the kiwifruit industry is one of the main winners, with its 45 percent tariff set to be removed completely within the next five years.
The New Zealand co-operative Zespri already runs an offshore operation on Jeju Island, south of the Korean mainland.
It says the Jeju Island operation, and similar ones in Japan, Italy and France, complement New Zealand production, as local growers can fill the shelves, during the off season in New Zealand.
The Trade Minister Tim Groser says while kiwifruit was the "poster-child" of the South Korean deal, some industries did miss out, or get fewer benefits than hopes. But he says the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement could offer further opportunities.
"Well my intentions are very transparent, it is to have a second bite at the cherry, the Korean cherry."
He said it won't work if TPP fails, but believes that was unlikley.
"If TPP comes together, and I think the Prime Minister and I are feeling reasonably confident, not 100 percent but reasonably confident it will come together...That the TPP will not stop at this point but will go on to expand into other Asia Pacific countries... and number one on that is Korea."
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Topics: economy
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Tags: Korean Free Trade Agreement, deer velvet, kiwifruit, trade, South Korea
Duration: 27'01"
08:35
Charles Montgomery - Urban Anxiety
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Vancouver-based writer and journalist Charles Montgomery is a critic of what he calls anti-social planning. Charles says that low-density suburbs where people depend on cars create isolation and dissatisfaction and make for an "unhappy city". Charles Montgomery is the author of Happy City and is speaking next week at the New Zealand Planning Institute 2015 Conference, 'Back to the Future' in Auckland, and at an Auckland Conversations event.
Topics: housing, author interview, books
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Tags: urban planning, anxiety, happiness
Duration: 16'31"
09:05
Mediawatch for 12 April 2015
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A turbulent week in broadcasting: the much-hyped launch of new Paul Henry news show; reports the end is nigh for John Campbell’s one; and three low key closures.
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Duration: 30'11"
09:41
Jeremy Hansen and Richard Naish - Home of the Year
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The 'Home of the Year' is New Zealand's richest architectural prize and this year the honours went to Richard Naish for the design of his own family home in Grey Lynn, Auckland. Wallace talks to the winning architect along with Home Magazine's Jeremy Hansen about what the judging panel looks for in a winning design.
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E Type House by Richard Naish of RTA Studio exterior view Photo by Patrick.
The ‘Home of the Year’ is New Zealand’s richest architectural prize and this year the honour went to Richard Naish for the design of his own family home in Grey Lynn, Auckland.
E Type House by Richard Naish of RTA Studio interior view Photo by Patrick Reynolds.
Wallace talks to the winning architect along with Home Magazine’s Jeremy Hansen about what the judging panel looks for in a winning design.
E Type House by Richard Naish of RTA Studio Photograph by Patrick Reynolds.
Topics: housing
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Tags: House of the year, architecture, Richard Naish, Jeremy Hansen
Duration: 16'09"
10:06
Rochelle Rees - When your boyfriend is a spy
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Rochelle Rees is a computer programmer and sometimes animal rights activist who discovered her then boyfriend was a police spy in 2008. Seven years on, she reflects on the betrayal of trust and the implications of the state, and private sector organisations, spying on political activists.
Topics: internet, law, politics
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Tags: surveillance, spying, animal rights, Rochelle Rees, police, activism, relationships
Duration: 17'01"
10:23
Spying on ourselves - A panel discussion
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A couple of weeks back we took a look at the ethics of spying on your friends and neighbours, today we're exploring the ethics of spying on ourselves. Keith Locke is a former Green MP whose SIS file revealed that he had been under surveillance since he was 11 years old and attended a William Morris social evening; Rhys Ball is a former SIS intelligence officer turned Massey University academic; and Kathleen Kuehn is a Victoria University media studies lecturer and author of a forthcoming BWB text on surveillance in New Zealand.
Topics: internet, law, politics
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Tags: surveillance, spying, SIS, Keith Locke, Rhys Ball, Kathleen Kuehn, GCSB
Duration: 30'04"
11:06
Paul Kelly performs live
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Top Australian musician Paul Kelly performs a couple of songs from his Merri Soul Sessions, backed by Vika and Linda Bull, live ahead of his Powerstation gig. Paul also tells Wallace about his 30-plus years of being the Antipodean Dylan.
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Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is one of Australia's most successful singer-songwriters, with 20 albums under his belt across a career spanning over 40 years.
He performs a couple of songs from his Merri Soul Sessions, backed by Vika and Linda Bull, live ahead of his Powerstation gig. Paul also tells Wallace about his 30-plus years of being the Antipodean Dylan.
Video: 'Righteous Woman'
Topics: music
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Tags: Paul Kelly, Merri Soul Sessions, Vika and Linda Bull
Duration: 28'03"
11:38
Daphne Clair de Jong - Life of Romance
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Wallace Chapman may have a future as a literary romantic hero now that Daphne Clair De Jong has admitted he is "handsome enough". Daphne began writing romances for Mills and Boon in the late 1970s and has published nearly 60 books. She appears often on US romance best seller lists. Daphne Clair de Jong is current President of Honour of the New Zealand Society of Authors and is delivering the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture on May 7 as part of the Dunedin Writer's Festival.
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Wallace Chapman may have a future as a literary romantic hero now that Daphne Clair De Jong has admitted he is "handsome enough".
Daphne began writing romances for Mills and Boon in the late 70’s and has published nearly 60 books. She appears often on US romance best seller lists.
Daphne Clair de Jong is current President of Honour of the New Zealand Society of Authors and is delivering the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture on May 7 as part of the Dunedin Writer's Festival.
She talks to Wallace Chapman about her life of romance.Topics: author interview, books, arts
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Tags: Daphne Clair de Jong, romance fiction
Duration: 19'22"
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7:08 Current affairs
There are calls for a crackdown in Tunisia after Islamist militants killed 22 people in the Bardo museum last month. But many fear a campaign against the militants will spiral into repression and wind back the democratic reforms that are reshaping the politics of the country since the Arab Spring in 2011. Wallace talks to Yasmine Ryan in Tunis. Plus: Fiji’s ultimatum over the Pacific Islands Forum, The Week in Parliament, and saving the National Schools Poetry Award.
8:12 Insight Korea and the Free Trade Agreement
After five tough years of negotiating, New Zealand has signed a free trade deal with South Korea. It's already New Zealand's sixth largest trading partner, and with an increasingly affluent population, Korea is potentially a very lucrative market for New Zealand producers. Radio New Zealand’s parliamentary chief reporter, Jane Patterson, traveled to South Korea for the signing of the deal, and she looks at who are the winners, who are the losers, and asks if this really a good deal for New Zealand?
Produced by Philippa Tolley.
8:40 Charles Montgomery – Urban Anxiety
Vancouver-based writer and journalist Charles Montgomery is a critic of what he calls anti-social planning. Charles says that low-density suburbs where people depend on cars create isolation and dissatisfaction and make for an "unhappy city".
Charles Montgomery is the author of Happy City and is speaking next week at the New Zealand Planning Institute 2015 Conference, 'Back to the Future' in Auckland, and at an Auckland Conversations event.
9:06 Mediawatch
Mediawatch looks back at a turbulent week in broadcasting: The much-hyped launch of a new news show, rumours of the axe for an established one, and three low-key closures. Also – a blues man’s victory for freedom of expression and his satirical political song.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Jeremy Hansen and Richard Naish – Home of the Year
The ‘Home of the Year’ is New Zealand’s richest architectural prize and this year the honours went to Richard Naish for the design of his own family home in Grey Lynn, Auckland. Wallace talks to the winning architect along with Home Magazine’s Jeremy Hansen about what the judging panel looks for in a winning design.
10:06 Rochelle Rees – When your boyfriend is a spy
Rochelle Rees is a computer programmer and sometimes animal rights activist who discovered her then boyfriend was a police spy in 2008. Seven years on, she reflects on the betrayal of trust and the implications of the state, and private sector organisations, spying on political activists.
10:20 Spying on ourselves – A panel discussion
A couple of weeks back we took a look at the ethics of spying on your friends and neighbours, today we’re exploring the ethics of spying on ourselves. Keith Locke is a former Green MP whose SIS file revealed that he had been under surveillance since he was 11 years old and attended a William Morris social evening; Rhys Ball is a former SIS intelligence officer turned Massey University academic; and Kathleen Kuehn is a Victoria University media studies lecturer and author of a forthcoming BWB text on surveillance in New Zealand.
From left: Rhys Ball, Keith Locke and Kathleen Kuehn
11:05 Paul Kelly performs live
Top Australian musician Paul Kelly performs a couple of songs from his Merri Soul Sessions, backed by Vika and Linda Bull, live ahead of his Powerstation gig. Paul also tells Wallace about his 30-plus years of being the Antipodean Dylan.
11:35 Daphne Clair de Jong – Life of Romance
Wallace Chapman may have a future as a literary romantic hero now that Daphne Clair De Jong has admitted he is "handsome enough". Daphne began writing romances for Mills and Boon in the late 70’s and has published nearly 60 books. She appears often on US romance best seller lists. Daphne Clair de Jong is current President of Honour of the New Zealand Society of Authors and is delivering the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture on May 7 as part of the Dunedin Writer's Festival.
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Artist: Diana Krall
Song: Feels Like Home
Composer: Randy Newman
Album: Wallflower
Label:Verve
Time: 8.56
Artist: Paul Kelly
Song: Dumb Things
Composer: Kelly
Album: Under the Sun
Label: Mushroom
Time: 9:39
Artist: Calexico
Song: The News About William
Composer: J Burns
Album: Carried to Dust
Label: City Slang
Time: 10:56
Artist: Paul Kelly - live
Song: Righteous Woman
Composer: Kelly
Album: Merri Soul Sessions
Time: 11:11
Artist: Paul Kelly - live
Song: Thank You
Composer: Kelly
Album: Merri Soul Sessions
Time: 11:29
Artist: Ned Doheny
Song: Get it up for Love
Writer: Doheny
Album: Strange Dames and Funky Things Vol 5
Label: BBE
Time: 11:32
Artist: Queen
Song: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Writer: Mercury
Album: The Game
Label: Elektra
Time: 11:55
===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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Robert Frater - Death at Gallipoli
Aucklander Robert Andrew Frater was just 23 when he landed on the beach at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, and was mortally wounded. The young soldier died five days later from his wounds and was buried at sea. A century later Robert Frater’s oldest surviving relative, nephew 91-year old Bryan Mahon, remembers the stories of his lost uncle (RNZ)
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Robert Frater - Death at Gallipoli
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A New Zealand family recalls a long-dead uncle, killed at Gallipoli.
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Top left: Robert Andrew Frater, probably pre-WW1 Top right: Sergeant Robert Frater, New Zealand c1914, Bottom: Robert Frater, (right) now Lieutenant, in charge. Egypt. May 1915 - Auckland Weekly News 20th May 1915
“The bloke in charge was called Lieutenant Frater and he was killed on the first day, shot in the nuts while we were in the scrub, poor fellow.”
– Tony Fagan, 1985
Aucklander Robert Andrew Frater was just twenty three when he was fatally wounded at Gallipoli on the 25th April 1915. The young soldier died five days later from his wounds and was buried at sea.
Military historian Chris Pugsley describes Robert’s bravery on scaling the heights at Gallipoli leading his machine gun platoon, while the Turkish army fired down on them from above. According to Pugsley, after Robert was shot he was able to stagger back to the beach.
Left: Lt Robert Frater, Egypt c February 1915. Right: Group sitting in front of the sphinx, Egypt - Men from 3 Company Auckland Infantry Regiment, c February 1915. L-R Pte Hayter (12/129), Jock McKenzie (12/160), Lt Frater (12/1026), Pte AB Fordyce (12/102). Photo by Private R.B. Steele (12/604). Both Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph
A century later Robert Frater’s oldest surviving relative, nephew, 91-year-old Bryan Mahon remembers the stories of his lost uncle. He says Robert was the baby of the family, the youngest of six children. As a child Bryan heard how “unselfish” Robert had been, refusing aid from his comrades immediately after being shot and instead, going back to the beach for help. Bryan says the platoon would have had to move what was probably the very heavy Vickers machine gun into place, and as the man in charge, it was Robert’s job to get the gun correctly into position. To do so, Bryan understands Robert stood up, and it was then he was shot in the left thigh.
Picture: Robert Andrew Frater's nephew Brian Mahon beneath memorial in Frater Avenue
Jim Frater is Robert Andrew Frater’s great nephew, and since his recent retirement he’s been sorting through memorabilia about his great uncle. Included is a 1985 newspaper story about 90-year old Tony Fagan who was a surviving member of Robert’s machine gun platoon.
Fagan remembers, “The bloke in charge was called Lieutenant Frater and he was killed on the first day, shot in the nuts while we were in the scrub, poor fellow.”
Another newspaper clipping in Jim Frater’s keeping; Auckland Star 3rd May 1915:
“It is some consolation Lieutenant Frater laid down his life whilst fighting for his King and country in carrying out operations which have won such high praise from both the military and naval authorities.”
Jim Frater remarks ruefully, “They didn’t know what was going on.” And then again the Auckland Star, 4th May 1915:
“ I feel no sorrow for those who have died, for they gave their lives nobly and freely for their country’s service…”
Pictures: Left: Robert Frater’s 1914-15 Star. Right: Detail of back of Star engraved with Robert’s rank and serial number.
Jim Frater says he has not visited Gallipoli because when he was travelling as a young man, war wasn’t on the agenda. But his daughter has now been there. He believes New Zealanders recognise the sacrifices that were made in the First World War but it was an enormous cost of young New Zealand men’s lives. Jim Frater named his son Robert in his great uncle uncle’s memory.
Picture: Robert Andrew Frater's great-nephew, Jim Frater
Wellingtonian John Horrocks is another great nephew of Robert Andrew. He’s unearthed the war service medals of his great uncle, left in a trunk belonging to his grandmother. He plans to hand them over to Robert Andrew’s namesake, the present day Robert Frater.
In 1917 a street bordering Frater family land at Milford was renamed Frater Avenue in Robert’s Frater memory. It’s marked with a brass plaque. Jim Frater says he’ll make sure its gets a polish for this year’s Anzac Day. Almost three thousand New Zealanders died at Gallipoli during the eight month campaign. A total of 44,000 allied troops lost their lives, along with 87,000 Turks.
New Zealand History On Line says:
“In the wider story of the First World War, the Gallipoli campaign made no large mark. The number of dead, although horrific, pales in comparison with the death toll in France and Belgium during the war."
Topics: history, life and society
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: WW1, Gallipoli, Lone Pine memorial, Auckland Grammar, Frater Avenue, war, Anzac
Duration: 21'09"
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===12:40 PM. | Standing Room Only===
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It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment, including: 3:04 The Drama Hour
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12:40
Artist Michel Tuffery
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Artist Michel Tuffery hopes his latest project will get Pacific Island people talking about the World Wars and their impact on the islands, communities and families.
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Artist Michel Tuffery hopes his latest project will get Pacific Island people talking about the world wars and their impact on the islands, communities and families. He researched archival images from World War One as well as stories Island families have shared with him about the war years. The art he has created will be projected onto a wall as part of Wellington's Light and Sound show for the city's ANZAC commemorations.
Topics: arts, Pacific
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Tags: Pacific Islands, Pasifika, Michel Tuffery, WW1, Anzac
Duration: 10'19"
12:47
Children’s television
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It won't come as a surprise to anyone with kids that they're spending a lot of time surfing through YouTube. So where does that leave traditional outlets for young people, particularly on TV?
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It won't come as a surprise to anyone with kids that they're spending a lot of time surfing YouTube. So where does that leave traditional outlets for young people – particularly on TV?
Last month the New Zealand Children's Screen Trust – Kids on Screen for short – released the Children's Media Rights Declaration, outlining what children should have the right to access regarding content.
Janette Howe from Kids on Screen and What Now director Kerry du Pont talks to Simon Morris about creating content for children.
Topics: arts, media
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Tags: television, children, children's television
Duration: 10'25"
13:34
Architecture inspired by literature
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Lloyd Jones' Mr Pip was about the power of literature in a country and culture that had very little knowledge or interest in it.
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Lloyd Jones’ Mr Pip was about the power of literature in a country and culture that had very little knowledge or interest in it. Bougainville didn't even have a public library… which is where architect Paul Kerr-Hislop comes in.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Bougainville, Lloyd Jones, architecture
Duration: 12'18"
13:45
Chimp: Wellington Zoo's Artist in Residence
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Ash Sisson A.K.A Chimp may be underplaying his talent, but at eighteen years of age he proves that youth isn’t, and should never be a barrier to success.
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Ash Sisson with an artwork for auction. Image courtesy of Wellington Zoo
“When I started, I didn’t really even think what I was doing was art. I was just trying to progress my style [because] I don’t think I was naturally gifted at drawing, I think I just enjoyed it enough to stick at it.”
Ash Sisson A.K.A Chimp may be underplaying his talent, but at eighteen years of age he proves that youth isn’t, and should never be a barrier to success.
Gallery: Artwork by Chimp
Over the years, Ash has accumulated a massive back log of work and his passion for longboarding merged with his art at the age of fourteen when he began making and selling skateboards under the brand name, ‘Planetary Longboards.’
“I got my first skateboard when I was ten, but then I got into downhill longboarding and I was way more passionate about that, just because the scene was probably more friendly,” he says.
Though he never considered himself an entrepreneur, the business of making boards and even doing custom orders proved a useful time for experimentation where he admits to having made mistakes along the way—mistakes mind you—that have allowed for further growth and development.
Today his skateboard and longboard are close by—usually in the back of his car, which also features Chimp artwork, along with his social media details. Astute and brand aware, he admits to having learnt a bit about business and marketing from his parents, though he isn’t prepared to share any of his secrets.
Assisted by a creative urgency to produce work and improve his craft, Ash is also incredibly organised and likes to map out his goals, without which, he says, “If you don’t have goals then you’re planning to fail [so] you have to keep growing or you lose [the reason] why you’re doing it.”
Thus far, he has a group and solo exhibition under his belt, and has also completed an array of commissions in New Plymouth, Wellington and Hutt City, with a string of private commissions to complete this year, all of which, he will fit alongside his first year of study as a design student at Massey University and not to mention his work for the Wellington Zoo, as their Artist in Residence.
With a graphic style that features eye-catching native birds and wildlife, his work fits seamlessly into the zoo’s environment. Often applying unexpected colour combinations that catch people off guard, he emphasises the importance of colour in his visual aesthetic: “People talk about complimentary colours like it’s part of the colour wheel, but to me, complimentary colours shouldn’t be about what science tells you, but what visually looks pleasing.”
Taking on commissioned projects has been a welcome challenge for the young artist, who believes that working within the confines of a brief, pushes him beyond his comfort zone, so he is constantly learning on the job.
Having just completed his final year of secondary school at Hutt Valley High, Ash is confident about putting his work out into the public sphere; including driving his own publicity and contacting media organisations to have his projects featured. He believes too, that being young has been advantageous and people have been impressed with his work ethic, talent and level of productivity—he can complete a large mural within the space of a 9-5 day—as he did with the art work inside the zoo’s penguin enclosure.
His parents have supported his every move from supplying him with spray paint, allowing him to take over the family garage as his art studio, and early on, prompted him to set up a market stall to sell his art work. For Ash, receiving positive feedback through the market stall experience provided the encouragement he needed to see a future for himself in the art world.
“I kind of just realised one day that I wasn’t making opportunities for myself, and I thought, there’s no reason why I have to wait. There are so many people doing exactly what I do and they’ll be doing it better…but I went out there and I did it, and made sure I’ve learnt long the way.”
Learning on the job is one thing, but making the decision to continue his study did not come easily, especially considering that he had already begun establishing a name for himself in his chosen profession; with an ultimate goal to work on international commissions, he sees value in having a back-up plan if his graffiti dreams don’t come to fruition.
“It’s still a shock to me, choosing to go to Uni, [but] If I can’t make it as Chimp, I’ll be able to go to a design firm [and] have experience, because you need a degree to get into these places to even get an interview. There are so many people who want to do what I want to do [and] it’s a competitive market, so you have to be one step ahead.”
Follow Chimp on Facebook and Tumblr.
Topics: music, environment
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Berhampore, graffiti, art, Ash Sisson, Hutt Valley High School, Wellington Zoo, nature, Wellington City Council, birds
Duration: 12'47"
14:26
Singin' In The Rain
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The West End is coming to Wellington and Auckland in the form of musical comedy Singin' In The Rain.
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The West End is coming to Wellington and Auckland in the form of musical comedy Singin’ In The Rain. Based on the 1952 Oscar winning film of the same name starring Gene Kelly, the musical first debuted in London in 1983. The latest production is starting its world tour in Wellington from April 15. And of course it wouldn’t be Singin’ in the Rain without the rain. Production manager Rich Blacksell is the rain man. He oversees 12,000 liters of water making its way through 800 metres of pipe to pour down on stage.
Topics: arts
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Tags: musical theatre
Duration: 10'18"
14:38
Bridget van der Zijpp
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In her new novel In The Neighbourhood of Fame, Bridget Van Der Zijpp introduces us to a once famous musician who's now pottering in his suburban garden but still revered by his community for his one-hit-wonder.
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In her new novel In The Neighbourhood of Fame, Bridget Van Der Zijpp introduces us to a once famous musician who's now pottering in his suburban garden but still revered by his community for his one-hit-wonder. We get to know Jed Jordan not through his own words and thoughts, but through those of three women - his wife, a childhood friend and a teenager who talks to him at the local dog park.
Topics: arts, author interview
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Tags: Bridget van der Zijpp
Duration: 10'49"
14:49
Portrait artist Susan Wilson
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Expat portrait artist Susan Wilson has a style that tends to be polarising. She's not into painting flattering images of her sitters.
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Expat portrait artist Susan Wilson has a style that tends to be polarising... she's not into painting flattering images of her sitters.
People who commission her appreciate her honesty, and know that she won't paint them from a photograph, they have to be prepared to sit for hours, though they are encouraged to chat.
Susan Wilson is currently back in the country to gift a self-portrait of her wearing her father's war medals, to the New Zealand Portrait Gallery.
Topics: arts
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Tags: painting, portraits, portraiture
Duration: 9'15"
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12:39 Artist Michel Tuffery
Artist Michel Tuffery hopes his latest project will get Pacific Island people talking about the World Wars and their impact on the islands, communities and families. He researched archival images from World War One as well as stories Island families have shared with him about the war years. The art he's created will be projected onto a wall as part of Wellington's Light and Sound show for the city's ANZAC commemorations.
12:47 Children’s television
It won't come as a surprise to anyone with kids that they're spending a lot of time surfing through YouTube. So where does that leave traditional outlets for young people - particularly on TV? Last month the New Zealand Children's Screen Trust - Kids on Screen for short - released the Children's Media Rights Declaration, outlining what children should have the right to access regarding content. Janette Howe from Kids on Screen and What Now director Kerry du Pont on creating content for kids.
1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
Simon Morris reviews Mexican animated feature The Book of Life, and the latest – and biggest – film in the Fast and Furious franchise – Furious 7. And as a light sorbet on the side, he goes to a French film set in a hospital ward, Get Well Soon.
1:34 Architecture inspired by literature
Lloyd Jones’ Mr Pip was about the power of literature in a country and culture that had very little knowledge or interest in it. Bougainville didn't even have a public library… which is where architect Paul Kerr-Hislop comes in.
1:47 In residence at the zoo
Who knew you could be an artist in residence at the zoo? Well for savvy young artist Ash Sisson A.K.A Chimp, he gets to spend his days creating art in who is the current artist in residence at The Wellington Zoo. He began his creative path making and selling skateboards in his early teens. Having just started a design degree, he has an impressive backlog of work and has completed public commissions around central Wellington, Beramphore, New Plymouth and the Hutt City.
Gallery: Artwork by Chimp
2:05 The Laugh Track
John Carr, the sexagenarian rappper, stood out among the callow youth at The Raw Comedy finals in 2010, and went down a treat. What was even more unlikely was that he'd never done stand-up comedy before. Since then, he's never looked back. His selections include Rhod Gilbert, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and Andrew Watts.
2:26 Singin In The Rain
The West End is coming to Wellington and Auckland in the form of musical comedy Singin’ In The Rain. Based on the 1952 Oscar winning film of the same name starring Gene Kelly, the musical first debuted in London in 1983. The latest production is starting its world tour in Wellington from April 15. And of course it wouldn’t be Singin’ in the Rain without the rain. Production manager Rich Blacksell is the rain man. He oversees 12,000 liters of water making its way through 800 metres of pipe to pour down on stage.
2:38 Bridget van der Zijpp
In her new novel In The Neighbourhood of Fame, Bridget Van Der Zijpp introduces us to a once famous musician who's now pottering in his suburban garden but still revered by his community for his one-hit-wonder. We get to know Jed Jordan not through his own words and thoughts, but through those of three women - his wife, a childhood friend and a teenager who talks to him at the local dog park.
2:49 Portrait artist Susan Wilson
Expat portrait artist Susan Wilson has a style that tends to be polarising... she's not into painting flattering images of her sitters. People who commission her appreciate her honesty, and know that she won't paint them from a photograph, they have to be prepared to sit for hours, though they are encouraged to chat. Susan Wilson is currently back in the country to gift a self-portrait of her wearing her father's war medals, to the New Zealand Portrait Gallery.
3:05 The Drama Hour
Part Three of Shakespeare's Women and Part One of The War Artist by Carl Nixon.
===4:06 PM. | None (National)===
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Gaylene Preston, Rebecca Macfie and Lloyd Jones explore the response to extreme events such as earthquakes and mine disasters with Finlay Macdonald (F, RNZ)
===5:00 PM. | None (National)===
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A roundup of today's news and sport
===5:11 PM. | Spiritual Outlook===
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Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)
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17:05
Poet Sam, the praying man
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When poet Sam Hunt was nine years old he was strapped by a harsh nun at his convent school. That turned him off religion he says, but he's still a praying man.
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“I’m not religious but I do pray. A lot. It’s just someone I pray to out there.”
When poet Sam Hunt was nine years old he was strapped by a harsh nun at his convent school. That turned him off religion he says, but he’s still a praying man.
Sam grew up on Auckland’s North Shore in the 1950s, in a house infused with poetry, music, and some spiritual contemplation. His lawyer father was 60 years old when he was born and not a practicing Christian. He was also 30 years older than Sam’s mother, who had been brought up a Roman Catholic.
Today I’ve gone to talk to Sam about things spiritual. We meet at his little cottage beside what he calls the “salt river”, feeding into the Kaipara Harbour. He’s lived here for more than a decade with his second son Alf, now 17, who’s in his last year of college at nearby Ruawai.
As a child, Sam remembers having a “very strong” relationship with his parents, a father who took him to classical concerts at the Auckland Town Hall, and a mother who taught him astronomy and a love for poetry. Sam was sent to Catholic Convent School, where one day he remembers putting up his hand and asking whether the same God looked after all the other universes. For that he was thoroughly punished. He thinks it was quite a reasonable question. It’s one for which he says, at almost 69, he still hasn’t found the answer.
Left and middle: Some iconography at Sam’s house. Right: Getting a ‘gong’ from the Governor General.
Although he doesn’t believe religious teaching, he does pray. He won’t say who or what he prays to… although later in our conversation he admits it could be his muse. He says it comes from the same place as his poetry.
Sam remembers as a boy being transported to “a whole new sphere” while hearing cellist Pierre Fournier play Dvorak’s cello concerto. There is music to his poetry. Sometimes he thinks of it being in a particular key, as in a music score. He says it’s all a “bloody metaphor, but in that metaphor there is truth”.
Sam Hunt says he values where he lives, as the silence is important in helping him compose. He has also visited the Cistercian monastery in Hawkes Bay where he finds the peace and the plainchant very restoring. “It was right up there with Beethoven and Bob Dylan”.
After he’d written a piece called Wavesong, his mother remarked that it was the most beautiful prayer she’d ever heard. Wavesong is now part of a new album put together by Sam in collaboration with Dunedin singer song writer, David Kilgour. It’s to be released on May 1st, which Sam says he favours because it’s a day that honours Mary, the Mother of Jesus. “I have a lot of devotion to Mary, although I don’t believe in The Virgin Birth. It’s all a bit abstract.”
Topics: arts, music, spiritual practices, life and society
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: God, prayers, muse, poetry, Mary the Mother of Jesus, Dvorak Cello Concerto, Auckland Town Hall, Lewis Eady, Ruawai, Kaipara Harbour, Sam Hunt
Duration: 24'41"
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===5:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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Maori news and interviews from throughout the motu (RNZ)
===6:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
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18:06
Whakātauki mo 12 o Paenga whāwhā (2015)
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Maungarongo ki te whenua. Peace on Earth. This week's whakatāuki is explained by Morrie Love no Te Ati Awa.
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Maungarongo ki te whenua. Peace on Earth. This week's whakatauki is explained by Morrie Love no Te Ati Awa.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags: whakatauki
Duration: 33"
18:08
Pukeahu National War Memorial Park - Morrie Love
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On March 25th this year, the official dawn blessing ceremony took place at the Pukeahu National War Memorial park, Buckle Street in Wellington. Built above the Arras Tunnel, the park provides a space for recreational activity and reflection. The park is very much still a work in progress according to Wellington Tenths Trust Chairman Morrie Love.
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Morrie Love stands beside the bronze statue, Hinerangi by Te Atiawa, Ngāti Ranginui artist, Darcy Nicholas.
On March 25th this year, the official dawn blessing ceremony took place at the Pukeahu National War Memorial park, Buckle Street in Wellington. Built above the Arras Tunnel, the park provides a space for recreational activity and reflection. The park is very much still a work in progress according to Wellington Tenths Trust Chairman Morrie Love.
The blessing ceremony itself was attended by up to six hundred people, but it will officially open on the 18th April 2015. There are a few intricate details to the park, bricks made by Parihaka descendants who were imprisoned at the Mount Cook Gaol, after the sacking of Parihaka, are set inside the concrete wall.
Mr Love explains that part of their work was to collect clay from Pukeahu and make bricks for the government of the time. Upon close inspection, some of the bricks have fingerprints and in some, an arrow symbol is indicative the brick was made by a prisoner.
Three Toka (boulders) from Taranaki and Ruapehu are placed directly in front of the wall with words taken from whakatāuki (proverbs) that relate to Parihaka Tupuna Te Whiti o Rongomai, The Māori contingent at World War I and the 28th Maori Battalion of World War II. The Toka weigh up to 14 tonne, and carved intricately inside the rocks are imagery of the arrival of Tupuna Maori to Aotearoa.
On an overcast morning Morrie Love explains the design of Pukeahu National War Memorial Park and the collaborative effort of māori artists and local tangata whenua.
Topics: history
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: 28th Maori Battalion
Duration: 15'49"
18:23
Innovating Mātauranga and Re-searching Rangatiratanga
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Teacher, Waiata Moteatea (Traditional Chant) scholar and researcher Dr Wayne Ngata attended the recent Kei Tua o te Pae conference held at Te Wananga o Raukawa, Otaki. In tackling the subject matter of Innovating Matauranga and Re-searching Rangatiratanga, the ideas of his keynote speech did not come to mind easily. But for this keynote kōrero, Dr Ngata talks about the challenges he encountered when he was part of the Independent Adjudication Panel that oversaw the Central North Island (CNI) iwi collective and the allocation of land, mainly in the Kaingaroa Forest. As a Rawaho (an outsider) from the eight iwi that formed the collective, there was a fine balancing act of adhering to the rules and guidelines of his role whilst maintaining tika (doing what is right). According to Dr Ngata the process and the end result, in which an allocation model was agreed upon by the collective is a form of Matauranga Maori. Highlights from his keynote speech feature in this week's Te Ahi Kaa.
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Dr Wayne Ngata at Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Otaki. Photo: Te Ahi Kaa
Teacher, Waiata Mōteatea (Traditional Chant) scholar and researcher Dr Wayne Ngata attended the recent Kei Tua o te Pae conference held at Te Wananga o Raukawa, Otaki.
In tackling the subject matter of Innovating Matauranga and Re-searching Rangatiratanga, the ideas of his keynote speech did not come to mind easily.
But for this keynote kōrero, Dr Ngata talks about the challenges he encountered when he was part of the Independent Adjudication Panel that oversaw the Central North Island (CNI) iwi collective and the allocation of land, mainly in the Kaingaroa Forest.
As a Rāwaho (an outsider) from the eight iwi that formed the collective, there was a fine balancing act of adhering to the rules and guidelines of his role whilst maintaining tika (doing what is right).
According to Dr Ngata the process and the end result, in which an allocation model was agreed upon by the collective is a form of Mātauranga Maori. Highlights from his keynote speech feature in this week's Te Ahi Kaa.
Topics: history, politics
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Tags: Dr Wayne Ngata
Duration: 19'30"
18:43
Pūpūkahi I Ke Alo O Nā Pua - Mid-Pacific Institute
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Lanakila Michael Casupanga teaches Hula at Mid-Pacific Institute, a college preparatory school for school children from ages 5 -18 years old in Honolulu, Hawaii.
As part of their school programme, the Hula students and staff of Pupukahi I Ke Alo O Na Pua Hula group travelled to Aotearoa to perform, share stories, and exchange cultural knowledge. During the trip, the group of forty one staff and students spent time in Auckland at Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Mangere, they were looked after by host families in Whakatane, and Wellington based Kapahaka group Nga Tai Hononga o Marutawhiti hosted the students at Maraeroa Marae, Porirua.
It is at Maraeroa that Justine Murray talks to Lanakila Casupang about their trip, while High School Principal Thomas MacManus provides his perspective of experiencing manaakitanga (hospitality), and witnessing the practise of tikanga and Kawa on the Marae.
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Pūpūkahi I Ke Alo Ō Nā Pua Hula teacher Lanakila and his students at Te Papa. Photo: Lave Mauga
Lanakila Michael Casupanga teaches Hula at Mid-Pacific Institute, a college preparatory school for school children from ages 5 -18 years old in Honolulu, Hawaii.
As part of their school programme, the Hula students and staff of Pupukahi I Ke Alo O Na Pua Hula group travelled to Aotearoa to perform, share stories, and exchange cultural knowledge. During the trip, the group of forty one staff and students spent time in Auckland at Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Mangere, they were looked after by host families in Whakatane, and Wellington based Kapahaka group Nga Tai Hononga o Marutawhiti hosted the students at Maraeroa Marae, Porirua.
It is at Maraeroa that Justine Murray talks to Lanakila Casupang about their trip, while High School Principal Thomas MacManus provides his perspective of experiencing manaakitanga (hospitality), and witnessing the practise of tikanga and Kawa on the Marae.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Hawaii, Hula, Michael Casupanga
Duration: 13'39"
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===7:06 PM. | One In Five===
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The issues and experience of disability (RNZ)
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19:06
Treating by Touch
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This week on One in Five: Treating by touch - a profile of Motueka physiotherapist, Richard Hayward who also happens to be blind. Trained in London, Richard came to New Zealand thirty years ago via a stint in in apartheid-era South Africa. He tells Katy Gosset of his travel experiences in sensory terms: bird calls, tribal drums late at night, the smell of swamps and the feel of uneven surfaces beneath his feet. And he shares the intuitive physiotherapy technique that has made him successful in his career.
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Motueka Physiotherapist Richard Hayward treating Sue Clarke
"You can see there the operation scars and it is a little bit puffy still, but it's been much worse."
Veteran physiotherapist, Richard Hayward, describing an ankle injury to his client, Sue Clarke and One in Five presenter Katy Gosset.
But Richard himself does his "seeing" with his hands, after losing his sight at the age of five in a fall. "I struck my head on the concrete and got detached retinas and, in those days, they were not able to stick them back on again, basically."
He can't read X-rays but relies on expert advice from other physicians and his own sense of touch, honed over the years. He's also retained his visual memory and has some light perception which he says helps in his work.
A Rapport with Clients
Sue Clarke was referred to Richard after a serious accident in which a pine tree fell on her, pinning her against a second tree and breaking her back. She also suffered a punctured lung, fractured ribs and a badly crushed ankle. "I'm very lucky to be here."
Initially pleased to find a physiotherapist in her hometown of Motueka, Sue admits she was surprised to learn that Richard was blind. "My immediate thought, me being me, was "Goodness gracious how can anybody help me if they can't see my wounds and problems."
"And after my very first visit, all of those thoughts went away and I was very confident about coming back and being treated by Richard." She believes that, because he is blind, he has "more feel" and says he is very sensitive, both to what is feeling sore and what clients are capable of. Sue says receiving treatment from Richard has been her first experience of dealing with an unsighted person and it has been a good learning curve for her.
And she says she latches onto his positive words of reassurance. "He'll keep telling you that: "You will be whole again but it's just going to take time."
The pair clearly enjoy an easy rapport with Richard interjecting to add, "She's not very patient, she does too much and then wonders why she's sore!"
Sue laughs at this but believes that a bond has formed. "You just make yourself relax, knowing that he's not going to hurt you."
Richard Hayward treating Sue Clarke's ankle
Smells and Sounds
Richard trained as a physiotherapist at a London college for the visually impaired. He then headed to apartheid-era South Africa where he worked in KwaZulu-Natal, setting up rehabilitation centres for people with arthritis, polio and tuberculosis.
As a visitor, he recorded his impressions of the country in smells and sounds and what he could feel beneath his feet, be it sand or gravel. "The sound, of course, is insects, birdsong, African singing [...] in the distance, the sound of drums at night when the tribes get together for a meeting. It's atmosphere that you're seeping up and absorbing."
But eager to leave what he described as a "noxious" system (Apartheid) Richard and his wife left South Africa and headed for New Zealand, where they have been happily based in Motueka for thirty years.
He spends his recreational time swimming and exploring the country on a tandem bike with his wife.
Topics: health
Regions: Nelson Region
Tags: blindness, physiotherapy, travel, sensory experiences, apartheid, South Africa
Duration: 24'13"
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===7:35 PM. | New Zealand Society===
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While an increasingly wide variety of foods are available in New Zealand, African immigrants sometimes can’t source traditional ingredients. Amelia Nurse decided to find out what’s available here for African New Zealanders. She joins Barika Darboe (who runs the restaurant Afrika) at a grocers in Newtown, Wellington. (RNZ)
===7:45 PM. | In Parliament===
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An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (RNZ)
===8:06 PM. | Sounds Historical===
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NZ stories from the past (RNZ)
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20:05
Sounds Historical Hour One - 12 April 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful,dramatic and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
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Duration: 53'09"
21:05
Sounds Historical Hour Two - 12 April 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
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Duration: 56'03"
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8:09 Today in New Zealand History 4’32”
Auckland and Wellington were linked by telegraph, 12 April 1872.
8:15 Homework 0’09”
Three mystery voices.
8:16 Artist: Nancy Harrie (piano) 3’26”
Song: I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me
Composer: Gaskill/McHugh
Album: The Colourful Piano of Nancy Harrie
Label: Zodiac
Nancy Harrie involved in most aspects of popular music in the 1950s and 1960s, was the first pianist on television during a 1951 experimental broadcast. She died in 2000.
8:21 I Saw Them Fly 13'59”
A 1955 series of talks, introduced by Arnold Wall Jnr of 3YA Christchurch, in which Frederick Carpenter, who grew up in the village of Farnborough in the United Kingdom, recalls watching it become the centre of British aviation and his friendships with early aviators, from 1903 until the end of World War I. Part Three.
8:36 Artist: Eddie Howell 2’55”
Song: I’m in the Mood for Love
Composer: McHugh/Fields
Album: Polite Company
Label: Zodiac
Howell came from Whakatane.
8:41 Insight 1976 – the Smallest Show on Earth. Part one 7’39”
This week The smallest show on earth? – the film industry in New Zealand. The film industry is usually associated with Hollywood. However New Zealand has its own film industry story, eighty years ago this month the first motion pictures were screened in this country and it wasn't too long after that pioneer filmmakers were shooting film in New Zealand.
Henry Gore of Dunedin shot HMS New Zealand at Otago Heads and the wreck of the ship, Tyrone in 1913 for the new Queen’s Theatre. Rudall Haywood explains how he had to write the script, build the sound camera, processing equipment, photographic equipment and print the copies in the 1920s and 30s. John O’Shea of Pacific Films was an independent filmmaker of the 1950s and 60s and active in the Wellington Film Society. Derek Morton of Talking Pictures, explains how they tried to get commercial productions to pay the bills and make art films in between when time allowed. John Pettigrew made a number of films for the Education Department, he says he wasn’t keen on commercials but these films gave him the opportunity to make interesting films. Independent filmmaker, Geoff Steven comments that the N.F.U., the major producer of films in this country should have the freedom to explore the boundaries of cinema but haven’t. The manager of the Film Unit, David Fowler defends their productions saying, “… we make promotional films… tourist films… made for a specific purpose… nothing wrong in making films that will attract trade and tourist dollars… but by no means, are our films bland.”
8:49 Artist: Andre Lavalle Trio 2’56”
Song: Me Que Me Que
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Album: Polite Company
Label: Zodiac
8:53 War Report Episode 31 6’20”
With no idea of the carnage to come at Gallipoli the New Zealand home front was focused on minor matters. The wife of the Governor General urging woman to knit two pairs of socks for each serving man and the Wellington Chamber of Commerce refused to use pencils made in Bavaria by Johann Faber and was eager to buy from British manufacturers who were of necessity now providing higher grade pencils. General Andrew Russell, commander of the New Zealand troops reflects on the quality of the volunteers and the death of tennis star Andrew Wilding in action in 1915 is described. Newspaper reports indicate that the destination of the New Zealand troops is still not publically known, just days before the Gallipoli landings
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Artist: John McCormack
Song: It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
Composer: n/s
Album: Oh, It’s a Lovely War Vol 1
Label: CD41 486286
Artist: Bill Murray
Song: Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts for Soldiers
Composer: R P Weston/Herman Darewski
Album: Songs of World War 1
Label: CD Geoentertainment 557331
9:05 As I Remember 2’41”
Our Family Holiday in the 1930s by Cliff Couch of Paraparaumu, read by Phil Smith.
9:11 Artist: Rex Jensen 2’32”
Song: Portrait of My Love
Composer: West/Ornadel
Album: Polite Company
Label: Zodiac
9:15 Homework
Three mystery voices.
9:16 Old Bill's Story (part four) 11’29”
Read by Lance McCaskill, recorded in 1956. This story was told by an old drover to Bill Blackadder of Springs Junction who dictated it for recording by the NZBS. It tells of an 1876 cattle driving trip from the Waiau River in Canterbury, through the Cannibal Gorge (Lewis Pass) to the Robinson River on the West Coast.
9:29 Artist: Esme Stephens 2’48”
Song: Sixteen Reasons
Composer: Post
Album: Polite Company
Label: Zodiac
Hit in 1960 for Connie Stevens Chris Bourke writes: When she was just 19, Auckland singer Esme Stephens performed in her home town with one of the greatest bands of the jazz era. In 1943, as part of the “American invasion” of US troops on their way to fight in the Pacific, swing star Artie Shaw visited in New Zealand with his US Navy band. He had hand-picked the musicians from his jazz peers who had been called up or volunteered. Shaw and his uniformed cohorts arrived in New Zealand fatigued and disgruntled after months of playing jazz in hot, sticky, hazardous war zones. On the morning of 1 August, during a rehearsal for a concert that night at the St James Theatre on Queen Street, it was suggested that perhaps the band should have a female vocalist perform on a couple of numbers.
9:35 Miss Great Britain, visits New Zealand 7’18”
In 1954 Miss Great Britain Pat Butler visited New Zealand and was asked about her beauty contest experiences.
9:43 Artist: Lou and Simon 2’33”
Song: Now is the Hour (Po Atarau)
Composer: Trad
Album: The Maori Lou and Simon
Label: Red Rooster rlp4CD
Lou Clauson and Simon Meihana were a comedy pop vocal duo based in Auckland. They both originated from the South Auckland area with Lou Clauson coming from Drury and Simon Meihana from Pukekohe. The pair recorded a total of fifteen singles between 1962 and 1967. Lou, who is credited with introducing chicken and chips to New Zealand, died in December 2013.
9:47 World War One in Sight and Sound 10’35”
Diane Pivac and James Taylor of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision introduce a new website “Anzac Sights and Sounds”. It hosts WWI-related audio and film from New Zealand and Australia. Diane and James describe the site and play some extracts from the material used.
Teenage soldiers and a boat full of blood. Seventeen year old Daniel Patrick (“Pat”) Lloyd of Christchurch was among the New Zealanders who landed at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915. He witnessed the carnage caused when boatloads of men came under heavy machine-gun fire from the shore. He survived and went on to serve in France where he won a Distinguished Conduct Medal for ‘gallantry in the field’. Fifty years later Pat took part in an anniversary ‘pilgrimage’ by New Zealand veterans, who returned to Gallipoli to retrace their footsteps and visit the graves and memorials to fallen comrades. (Recorded in 1966).
The Daisy Patch “It was absolute murder – or suicide, whichever way you like to look at it.” On the 8th of May 1915, the New Zealanders launched a series of unsuccessful attacks across an open field of poppies and daisies in the south of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Former kauri gum-digger and school teacher, Joseph Gasparich of the Auckland Infantry Battalion was among them. The action known as “The Daisy Patch”, saw the New Zealanders charge across open ground against Turkish troops who were dug into well-concealed trenches. They were met by heavy machine gun and rifle fire, with disastrous results. As Joe Gasparich recounts, wave after wave of New Zealanders were felled. The New Zealand infantry suffered 835 casualties and by nightfall the Allies had lost 6500 men killed or wounded and advanced just 500 metres. (Recorded in 1968)
Treating Gallipoli’s wounded – Dr Agnes Bennett. Dr Agnes Bennett (1987-1960) was born in Sydney, Australia. She graduated from medical school in Edinburgh in 1899 and from 1905 worked in Wellington, New Zealand as a general practitioner and then as medical officer at St Helen’s maternity hospital. When war broke out she offered her services to the army but was turned down because she was a woman. Undeterred, she instead paid her own passage to sail to Europe to join the French Red Cross. She was sailing through the Red Sea in May 1915 when word reached the ship of the casualties arriving in Egypt from the Gallipoli campaign. As she recalls in this recording made in 1959, she disembarked as soon as she could and began working in the over-stretched military hospitals of Cairo. The army offered her the status and pay of a captain. (Recorded in 1959).
===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
===11:04 PM. | Hidden Treasures===
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Trevor Reekie seeks out musical gems from niche markets around the globe, re-releases, and interesting sounds from the shallow end of the bit stream (4 of 8, RNZ)
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Artist: Smokeshop (opening theme)
Song: Fusion at Room Temperature
Composer: Watson, Smokeshop
Album: Fusion at Room Temperature
Label: Pagan
Artist: Debashish Bhattacharya – featuring Jerry Douglas
Song: JD2 Pillusion
Composer: Debashish Bhattacharya
Album: Beyond The Ragasphere
Label: Riverboat Records
Artist: Pokey LaFarge
Song: Something In The Water
Composer: Pokey LaFarge
Album: Something In The Water
Label: Rounder Records
Artist: Garnet Mimms
Song: As Long As I Have You
Composer: jerry Ragovoy
Album: Cry Baby/Warm And Soulful
Label: Beat Goes On
Artist: Imed Alibi
Song: Maknassy (festuring Emel Mathlouthi
Composer: Imed Alibi, Emel Mathlouthi, Justin Adams
Album: Safar
Label: IRL Recordings
Artist: Pops Staples
Song: Somebody Was Watching
Composer: Pops Staples
Album: Don't Lose This
Label: dBPM under license to Anti Inc.
Artist: TrinityRoots
Song: El Kaptain
Composer: W. Maxwell
Album: Citizen
Label: Trinty Roots, Rhythm Method
Artist: Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate
Song: Tanama
Composer: Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate
Album: Faya
Label: Cumbancha
Artist: Tom Rush
Song: No Regrets
Composer: Tom Rush
Album: The Circle Game
Label: Elektra Records
Artist: The Impending Adorations
Song: The Best Is Yet To Come
Composer: P. McLaney, A.Lovegrove
Album: Kiwi Hit Disc 179 - [Disc 2]
Label: Revolution Music
Artist: Redgum
Song: I Was Only 19
Composer: John Schumann
Album: Against The grain (Redgum Anthology)
Label: Sony, BMG
Artist: Anouar Brahem
Song: January
Composer: Anouar Brahem
Album: Souvenance
Label: ECM